USN-977-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-977-1

moin vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Software description

moin

Details

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input,resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. With cross-sitescripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing serveroutput during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploitthis to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the samedomain.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version: